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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References

Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on October 28, 2009

Speaking of interesting videos, Stuart Halloway has been beating the drum pretty hard for Rich Hickey‘s talk: Persistent Data Structures and Managed References. I was actually in the audience (along with Glenn Vanderburg) when Rich gave this talk at more »

Yet Another 2GX Wrap-up

Posted by: Dave Klein on October 27, 2009

Finally after more than a year of waiting and nagging, the second 2GX conference was held in New Orleans last week. It was almost as good as the first one. Well, in some ways it was better but in other ways. more »

Griffon 0.2 comes loaded

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 26, 2009

Today's big news: Griffon 0.2 has been released! Thank you all who made this possible With this release comes a new an exciting feature called Addons. more »

Performance without Appraisal: Build Feedback into the System

Posted by: Esther Derby on October 26, 2009

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SpringOne/2GX: A Retrospective

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 23, 2009

SpringOne/2GX is now over and most everyone has made their way back to the real world. Rather than write a long-winded review of the conference, I decided to summarize my thoughts in the form of a retrospective. That is, what went well, what didn't go so more »

Curing ADD with Roo, Blueprints, and Karaf

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 22, 2009

Yesterday was a big day for me at SpringOne/2GX. It was the day that I gave my talk on the Spring Expression Language (SpEL). I've been excited about giving that talk, but also excited about attending so many of the great sessions by other speakers. more »

SpringOne/2GX Day 2 Keynote

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 21, 2009

It's almost 24 hours after the fact, but here's my writeup on the SpringOne/2GX Day 2 Keynote that was given by Adrian Colyer, Karl Rumelhart, and Chris Richardson. I won't go over it in detail as I did with Rod Johnson's keynote.. more »

Expressing Technical Debt as User Stories Helps with ROI

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on October 21, 2009

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SpringOne/2GX Day 2 session wrap-up

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 20, 2009

The second day of sessions at SpringOne/2GX is almost over. Soon, we'll be having dinner and then listening to Adrian Colyer give a keynote address (which I'll summarize in a later post). So I thought I'd go ahead and take a moment to report on my day and more »

SpringOne/2GX Keynote notes

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 19, 2009

Rod started out by giving a quick overview of the Spring timeline, starting with the publication of Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development, up through the formation of Interface21/SpringSource, and into the more recent acquisitions. He then descri more »

Griffon: new plugin additions

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 17, 2009

These are the latest additions to the growing list of Griffon plugins: JBusyComponent 0.1 - enables a busy state on any Swing component via JBusyComponent. Depends on swingx-builder (will install it automatically). more »

Tell RCov to Cov Off

Posted by: Aaron Bedra on October 16, 2009

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Grails CAN HAZ REST 2!

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 16, 2009

It surprises none that Grails can expose REST services gracefully and effortlessly, just watch how the masters do it in Mastering Grails: RESTful Grails. However making REST calls from within a Grails application is a task left to your own wits. Fortunate more »

Spring conference time is in the air

Posted by: Craig Walls on October 14, 2009

As of today, it's one week until I present That old Spring magic has me in its SpEL: DI Wizardy with the Spring Expression Language at SpringOne/2GX. I'm really excited about giving this talk. I've already presented it twice at two different No-Fluff/Jus more »

Griffon: adding REST

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 13, 2009

Creating REST enabled Swing mashups just got a bit easier. I'm happy to announce that a REST plugin is now available for Griffon. This plugin wraps handy client and builder classes provided by the awesome HTTPBuilder project. more »

DSLs in JavaScript Video

Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on October 13, 2009

The video of my DSLs in JavaScript talk [slides - pdf] from QCon is now available on the InfoQ site; many thanks to all those who have written me or tweeted links, I appreciate it! I can’t say enough good things about QCon, it’s a great show w more »

Try to knockout before you consider to mock-out

Posted by: Venkat Subramaniam on October 11, 2009

Lovely Review of Manage Your Project Portfolio

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on October 9, 2009

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What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on October 9, 2009

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Griffon @ SpringHispano

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 8, 2009

Last Saturday (Oct 3rd) the SpringHispano community held its 9th community session. Domingo Suárez (@domix) kick-started the session with a talk on Apache Camel. If your daily job requires you to integrate disparate systems in order to get the job done yo more »